Here’s a wonderful, well-balanced discussion on an extremely important subject: placing a ban on fracking. As the author correctly states, natural gas is often used to offset coal, which, as he explains, represents double the greenhouse gas emissions per BTU …
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Growth of Renewable Energy Far Exceeds Predictions
One of the central themes here at 2GreenEnergy is that the rapid migration to renewable energy is happening right in front of our eyes. I’m reminded of the UK’s Duke of Edinburgh’s (pictured left) position on wind turbines (“They don’t …
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Climate Change Activism
One of my email signatures reads: “I won’t be the dad who knew, but did nothing.” And sure, I’m doing what I can to broaden my limited exposure and communicate the truth about climate change and the urgency associated with …
Car Bumper-Stickers Provide Insight Into the Political Make-Up of the Community
A few times a week, I take a run on a beach here in Santa Barbara, and I’m always amused by the bumper-stickers on the cars in the parking lot. To get the joke of the first one, you need …
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Be The Change
The reason you’re reading this right now is that you, like me, feel the duty to change the world for the better; this is a core aspect of who we are as people, regardless of the size of the contribution …
Battle Royale Over California’s Clean Air Standards
It comes as no surprise that California has the strictest clean air legislation in the U.S., culminating in our bill “SB 32” that recently passed the state assembly and is not on its way to the senate. Yet, as one …
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The Cost of Mitigating Climate Change May Be a Considerable Burden to Our Children
According to this article, the projected cost to our children associated with repairing the climate change-inflicted damage to our planet is $8.8 trillion, which works out to somewhere between $125K and $180K per child in lifetime earnings. But not to …
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Melting Sea Ice Puts Alaskan Village Into a Quandary
Here’s a story about a small town in Northern Alaska whose 650 citizens are currently voting whether or not to relocate, as the melting of the sea ice due to climate change is allowing the incoming waves to erode their …
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“Science Is Not a Liberal Hoax” – Love It
Here’s a shirt whose message is a straightforward reply to the growing lack of interest in and antipathy towards science. I need to get a few of these. Of course, I live in a hugely “God and country” town; the …
Big Oil Strikes Back (Are We Surprised?)
As reported several times earlier, numerous state attorneys general have begun to explore the role that ExxonMobil played in covering up the truth about (possibly irreversible) climate change. I can already hear the comments rolling in about how this investigation …
